I never understood that. Whatever else Donald Trump may be, he definitely is establishment.

This.

It is certainly true that rural America has serious issues related to the dwindling manufacturing, centralization of agriculture, etc. At the same time, it boggles the mind that the solution is put in charge a millionaire who lives at the top of a tower on an island that is the biggest city in the U.S.

To be more clear, I now consider Democrats to be the equivalent of the "other side" in a war - they will still oppose every and any thing your side does, they can lose a battle and still wage war, incessant and total non-compliance, they will fight to the last man, and any victory - even pyrrhic - is still a victory. Any means are justified in the pursuit of their ends.

So... in other words, the Democrats are now going to do what the Republicans have been doing for the past 8 years.

Yeah, except that I've actually seen UFO's about 30 to 50 feet above me that were totally silent, except for a deep vibration that occurred when directly over me, and military jets and a black helicopter slowly following them from about a mile behind. I don't have to have faith in something I haven't seen.

I'd be happy to believe you, if there was a shred of evidence provided. As is, this statement has as much weight as my claim of the invisible pink unicorn living in my garage.

And your point? CO2 was at 1950 ppm, and the temperature was only 3 deg Celsius hotter. Full stop. Period. That is a fact. Not a "factoid"... a motherfucking fact.

So, from this one data point, we can fully conclude that having CO2 at 1950 ppm will *always* result in a planet that is 3C warmer than today? I think that the parent was making the point that a whole fuckton of variables have changed in and around the planet in the intervening 200 million years, so it is making an apples to oranges comparison.

Here, I'll give you an example of this reasoning. Last winter, while standing outside with my coat on, I was cold. Therefore, if I want to cool off on a hot summer day, I should go outside and put my coat on. After all, I had my coat on before and felt cold, which is a *fact*, a motherfucking fact.